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HW Art in the Woods Fine Art & Fine Craft Fair 2008
June 28 and 29
Join me at this Huntington Woods event featuring family fun, arts, crafts, music, and great food. I always look forward to supporting the artists featured and will again this year. Visit the Woods Gallery website for more details.
edee
This is really cool! I noticed the info on the Museum Adventure Pass while visiting the newly designed HW library website (that site is looking good!).
HW library users with a valid library card can go by and use it for a free admission pass to area museums. You can call, visit, or email the HW library for more info or visit www.detroitadventurepass.org too. This seems like a great way to visit some of our great area museums this summer! Be sure to blog and let us know which ones you visit! edee
Don't miss the current exhibit at the Woods Gallery. Regina Dunne has a great story and her artwork is beautiful. I'm looking forward to stopping by myself. Showing through December 20 the exhibit is called Paintings-People & Places.
Originally from Cuba, Regina's journey as an artist is an inspiring one. Her paintings reflect tremendous color and soul. If you attend, share with everyone on the blog what you thought.
edee
If you haven't taken an afternoon to visit the Ansel Adams exhibit at the DIA--do it. We went this weekend and although we thought we knew everything there was to know about Ansel Adams and his work, the exhibit brought a few surprises. I particularly liked the collection from the Southwest and f/64. You can visit the DIA website for details. Don't miss this exhibit and support art in Detroit. The exhibit runs until May 27. I also read recently that the DIA will be closing down for the summer to complete renovations. I plan to go as much as possible prior to that. I anticipate seeing the finished project this Fall.
If you haven't visited the DFT for their new line-up, it has been great so far. See current listings at the DFT site. The seats have been updated, so the viewing is more comfortable!
Bethany | Huntington Woods
I always like to give press to the Woods Gallery and the artist's that show there. It is such a cozy gallery...and it's ours! Anyway, Shaqe Kalaj is going to have the next exhibit there -Feb 26th - April 19 (my son's birthday) and a meet and greet on Thursday March 1, 6:30pm - 8:30pm.
Here's a little from the Woods Gallery site: "In this body of work she was looking to express a starkness of emotion and felt that woodcuts would be the appropriate medium. It is through the carving of the wood that she feels connected to her subject matter. The figures that emerge tend to be abstract, androgynous, and archetypal images, immersed in textures and shapes. Although Shaqe is generally a colorist, it was in this body of work that she wanted to express boldness. The only way for her to resolve this was to make the work black and white. She drew on many emotions and experiences to create this body of work. For instance, her great, great grandfather who protected the Albanians from the Serbs and the Turks, was a subject matter for one piece of work. ‘Issues of beauty’ is the reinterpretation of Christianity, the confrontation of gender issues are just some of the content that she explored with this body of work." For more information: http://www.woodsgallery.org/exhibit.html
Do make the time to go and visit - I know I will. edee
Hello Edee, Happy New Year. I enjoyed your piece on the Dalai Lama book and exhibit. Do you know if that book is available in bookstores or only through the exhibit?
I wanted tell everyone, if they don't already know, that ART TRAIN will be in Ann Arbor this Saturday and Sunday. This traveling train or art was originally started in 1969 in Michigan and now travels all over the country bringing art to communities across the nation. I've always thought it was a great concept and marvel at how many art organizations have started in Michigan and elsewhere because of its influence. The current exhibit is Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture which showcases modern and contemporary works by Native American artists. Admission is free. Location is 1100 N. Main Street, Ann Arbor. Visit ArtrainUSA.org for more details. Thank you,
Pam | Huntington Woods
Happy New Year! I am looking forward to 2007 with the anticipation that this time of year always brings. That proverbial page turned and the chance to make new moves in any direction you choose--as if that numerical change in our year brings with it a dose of fresh hope and new direction. It's almost impossible for even the most skeptical souls not to get caught up in this momentum. So, away we go....
I flipped through an interesting book recently called, "The Missing Peace, Artists and the Dalai Lama," that is the printed version of the exhibition currently in Chicago (and on its way to New York) called "The Missing Peace Project." I would love to see it. The creators took the opportunity to explore the idea of art as an interpretation of, and catalyst for, peace. Through various artists interpretation and views of the Dalai Lama, the hope is to broaden the knowledge of him and the appreciation for those principles of peace he embodies. Try to find the book and, if you can, find the time to see the exhibition. Here's a link: http://gallery.tmpp.org/gallery/en/index.jsp A dedication to peace, here or anywhere, is certainly a good place to start with our renewal hope for 2007.
Till next time, edee
Be sure to check out the new exhibit by Sylvia Clark at the Woods Gallery. Her still life depictions are truly beautiful and can be viewed through December 22. For more info visit the Woods Gallery site. edee
As I read through the Metro Times editorial today on the new contemporary art museum raising its head in Detroit, I have to say I was skeptical, optimistic, and curious simultaneously. The editorial http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=9717 is thorough and asks the questions I also wonder --- will it be (in Detroit) everything a contemporary art museum should be, will it be edgy and innovative if not a delight of mind-stirring stimulation with the wisp of controversial. I, for one, am attending the opening gala on October 26 and as a passionate collector of fine contemporary art await with anticipation to see how the launch flies.
Marsha Miro, co-founder and temporary director, believes this is something that is a crucial aspect missing in Detroit and states in the editorial, "We also needed a place that anyone would feel comfortable walking into," Miro says. "I've always believed art is critical for everybody, not just the artists, the people who can afford to buy it or those initiated in the intellectual ramifications of it. Art adds so much to you as a human being. In this city, we need the healing qualities of creativity more than anything." I'm with you Marsha!
The museum opens to the public on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 248-851-5179. Here's a link to their site: http://www.mocadetroit.org/ Anticipate it with me and if inspired --- do tell all.
Markus | Huntington Woods
